Quote Originally Posted by funkymonkey1111 View Post
Is there a big market for these overseas? I see the stats that say it was the #1 sold car in the world, but it's not even the #1 sold car in the U.S.
Yuge.

I think that the Model Y was the highest selling model in California (go figure, lol) as well as 6 other states (WA, NV, CO, VA, MD, NJ) but it was 5th in the US overall. We still love our pickup trucks. It's head & shoulders above the rest of the competitors in the rest of the world though, making it the #1 vehicle sold worldwide. With how quickly Tesla is building Gigafactories and bringing them online & given their growth curve based on units sold, these #'s will likely be paltry this time next year. They went #5 in 2022 to #1 in 2023. Pretty big jump in a pretty short period of time and impressive by any standard.

Hell, even I used to not be a fan of the Model Y. The ride quality was harsh and they were really noisy compared to the Model S/X plus there were a few quirks I just wasn't a fan of. Tesla listened to the criticism and made some really good improvements in the way of a few dozen small quality-of-life upgrades that make it not only livable but really good now. All quietly and with little to no fanfare like most of their updates. What most other car manufacturers do every few years with incremental generation updates, Tesla does in a few months. Just part of the benefits to being smaller and more nimble.

The overall utility of the Model Y is incredible and why we ended up getting two of them (2023 at the start of 2023 & a 2024 a couple months ago) having previously always gone with the Model S. For us, I preferred the look of the Model S much more to the Model Y but the practicality of the Model Y day-to-day is undeniable and one of my favorite aspects of them.